Well they aren't that hard since their pictures taken from google with a bit of photoshop. The problem is that they are from real life and from other games so you can't just stick an LFS logo on them. If you want to do something that might attract a few LFS drifters attention then do some photos of LFS drifting and a few renders.

Indeed. Performance air filters clean the air just as the stock ones doe (producers claim it's better) but they are bigger then a normal air filter and they have a conic shape, thus maximizing the amount of air the engine can suck in.

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Not exactly, the amount of hp you gain from an air filter rises with your engine capacity (The bigger the engine, the more hp you get). It's the same thing for the 100 octane gas you find at Shell and other top of the line companys. For your car it isn't worth it to use that kind of gas because you will only gain about 1-2hp. You will need something of about 3L or bigger to get more then 10-20 hp from that gas thus making it worth it.

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I have no idea how much is one for your particular car but I would say about 50$ and an induction kit will cost you about £70-80. Tristan I guess 5-10 hp are for 2,5L and above .

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Performance air filters are useful but the amount of horsepower you get is relative. IT rises with your engine capacity. I believe your's a 2,0L I think you will get about 5-10 hp in the best scenario.

I presumed that if you get bigger injectors, then the mix will be richer thus thinking the normal spark plugs won't be as efficient and wouldn't last as much as performance ones but I can be wrong.
You have today so many things with "performance" written in front of it's name that your average Joe simply doesn't know anymore who to believe or what do to.

Well they will give you more power if you make sure the car "knows" it has bigger ones by changing a bit the engine maps. I also didn't mentioned the fact that the engine may heat up more then it has been built for.

To give you a full list of all the things you can do to get more torque without a turbo:

1. Cold air intake
2. Performance air filter
3. 4-1 exhaust
4. Oil cooler
5. Gas cooler
6. Bigger radiator
7. More powerful spark plugs
8. Bigger injectors

Their are probably a lot more, but this are the ones I remember. Please note that some of the parts are just for reliability issues.

I knew I forgot something Anyway thanks for clearing a few things for me as well Tristan.

Another cheap way to get more power ,more torque ,more mpg and better response is a cold-air intake with one of those performance air filters.
An un-cheaper way of getting more torque is by getting bigger injectors and more powerful spark plugs .

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I just remembered... Is there any way to increase torque in a car? I think forced induction could increase torque but are there other ways? I began to fall in love with lightweight roadsters, especially the Honda S2000 but I heard that it's low amount of torque was a fairly big downside for it.

At the risk of sounding chav-ish I would say that a "cheap" and fast way to do it is by changing the headers of the exhaust with performance ones. Their are two types of performance headers: 4-2-1 or 4-1 (referring to the way the pipes connect). From what I have heard 4-2-1 give you a bit more torque and a bit more hp while 4-1 give you more torque but it lowers a bit the hp, I heard that you can gain from 15 to 30 Nm. I know it's not a lot but it's a lot cheaper then a turbo, the engine will be more responsive. The bad part is that it will lower your mpg.

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I wouldn't worry because a little birdie told me that some team who's initials begin with an S and a R are planning to revive the league

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Petrol all the way! If he's gonna keep it for 5 years and only drive about 5000 miles a year then their is no reason to pay 2000 euros more for a tractor.

That is actually pretty damn good. I mean you can see in the movie that you are not a stranger to LFS video clips but the camera angles where not that special tough. In any case I would give you an 8 out 10 for the lack of exotic camera angles and IMO for a too relaxed pace and rhythm for a drift movie . The timing with the special effects sounds was just spot on! No 10 from me because no film is perfect

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Spoiler: Go to page 42 to see "dah Clinque Mob" now named "Click Mob".

I know! I wanted to quote that as well but couldn't find it tough!

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I joined that forum just so I can read the entire thread.

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I’m sure you will like my Anus, it has been very popular with the younger generation these days.
Feel free to use my Anus anyway you prefer, and If you like it, it is all yours.

LOL!

U.S.A. has a major part in the world's economy if we like it or not because it's a big player in all the big industries. To give you a short answer: yes, it will severely affect the world's economy. Hasn't it already fallen? From what I can remembered I think they have officially gone into economic crisis.

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I recommend you get one of those special energy saving, stronger illuminating and eco-friendly light bulbs. You will save over 2p per week!!! You will be able to cause an accident at night because of your ridiculously powerful light bulbs!!! and eco-activists won't burn anymore on the zebra when you stop at a red light!!! Sorry can't thing of anything other that for your car.

IMO I don't think you should invest money in the car. Just make sure it's in perfect working condition, use it for 1-2 years then get something decent and german like a Golf or a 3 series.

This are the videos from the Formula Junior series. Their purpose is to show how close the races are and to promote the series. All the credits go to DBPStoney. Enjoy!

http://community.racesim.co.uk/showthread.php?t=54

http://www.drivenbypassion.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2026

http://www.drivenbypassion.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2028

Quote from th84 :

Did I read that right? You called Will Ferrell the "comedy king". Please tell me I mis-read that.

You did but it seems that's what most people think about Will Ferrell, IMO he's comedies are cheesy, pointless, unrealistic and plain ol' stupid. Not someone who I would call a comedy king.

Well I have been watching lately a lot of new comedies with actors such as Dax Shepard, Seth Green, the "comedy king" Will Ferrell and to be honest they don't make me laugh almost at all and some of them are just so cheesy! I think that comedies post 2000 where a lot funnier then this new ones. Am I starting to turn into an old geezer or am I watching the wrong movies? Could you please share with me the names of a few new and good comedies so I don't start thinking that Hollywood is slowly loosing it?

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Quote from Psysim :

Is that really a species of this planet? They don't look very human!

Those are called Boybandus Singerus. They are a sub-species of the human race whose only purpose is to make female teenagers scream very loud, to make humans pay for horrible music, and to occasionally get drunk (or stoned) and make a sex videotape of themselves

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Quote from SamH :

That wasn't the reference at all. Nobody with half a braincell these days thinks Germans=nazi. Keep up!

Well if it wasn't a WW2 propaganda then I don't see how someone could come up with such a stereotype?Going furthermore off-topic I can say that germans are almost totally different (some enjoy a good beer as mentioned in the stereotype ). I met funny, relaxed, friendly people on my trips to Germany. No way near to their stereotype.

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Quote from BlueFlame :

Well, you're German.

Seriously, stop it with that! You are relying on a 60 years old stereotype made up by some 40 years old fat american bloke that thinks that germans=nazi.

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Now the discussion becomes really interesting.

I for one think that if alien life forms exist, they would be similar to us to a certain degree, as physics and chemistry follow the same rules everywhere in our universe. Thus, life's origin where it is possible would be quite similar to the first forms of life here.So it would also develop in a similar way. Of course, aliens wouldn't just be the same es we are, because there are loads of factors which decide which branches of life go extinct and which develop further, but the basic recipie of a sentient being would be the same throughout the universe: it would have to have nimble tools for delicate work, a well performing brain and means of communicating with one another on a level that allows talking about abstract matters. So I think that sentient life is actually quite alike in our universe.

Another thing is taking the latest quantum physics theories in account: in universes with different laws of physics, life of course would be radically different.

IMO because physics and chemistry follow the same rules everywhere in our universe aliens can turn out to be totally different. We are water based life forms on a planet that has just the perfect size and atmospheric conditions so life forms of our type can evolve here. Sn alien planet can be ,let's say, 3 times bigger then ours, with very chaotic atmospheric conditions, we could say that the aliens might turn out to be carbon-based life forms thus their basic recipe of a sentient being totally different from ours.

"it would have to have nimble tools for delicate work". Delicate work is a very relative word when we think about it's possible applications in the universe, isn't it? In my example, the carbon-based aliens on their planet 3 times bigger then earth would move very very slow compared to us, our definition of nimble and normal would be their definition of Godly fast and nimble.
"a well performing brain'. My example would have a very rudimentary brain, yet they would be on top of the food chain on their home planet.
" means of communicating with one another on a level that allows talking about abstract matters". Could you please define abstract matters? It's yet again a very relative term.

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What is a "fake" crop circle exactly? I'm sure someone asked that already.

If someone can be caught and charged for doing it, that makes it "real" because it's real crops and real circles therein. And personally I reckon if aliens are intelligent enough to find our planet and make their way down here undetected, they probably have better things to do with their time than draw on our plants.
Think about what our space travellers would do if they went to another planet.

"Control, we are entering the atmosphere now. All systems appear to be stable."
"Roger that, proceed with caution. Let us know if anything changes."
"Control, I can see signs of life. I repeat, I can confirm signs of life. Domestic and commercial buildings, artificial light sources."
"Excellent news, guys."
"We have landed safely."
"Fantastic."
"Control, I am now stepping out of the craft."
"Wonderful."
"Control, I am now dancing around naked, drawing graffiti on this field. Later on I'll whip our ship around in random shapes in their night sky. Our journey has taken many years and millions of credits to complete. Let's bugger off before anyone can confirm we were actually here. Weeeee."
"Umm..."

To believe that we are the only things alive in the infinite space in the universe is nothing short of arrogant.

IMO Crop Circles can't be called fake or real, just hoaxes .You made a mistake their. You presumed that aliens might have a few human features but as I said before, they can be totally different, thus their understanding of communicating with another race might be totally different from ours.

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Quote from ColeusRattus :

What we don't know though is how they are created. I for one thinks there are basically a few possible origins: hoaxers and phenomena of the earths magnetic field, static current or the weather.
I highly doubt though that they are created by aliens coming to visit our little planet, because it has some logical flaws: If they wanted to contact us, they'd use certainly another method of doing so, which would allow two way communication. If they wouldn't want to contact us and stay secret, why would they create these plainly visible circles?

As much as I agree with you on the fact that the crop circles are made by human beings, I must say that you might be wrong about the way the aliens might try to contact us. It's a mathematical fact that if "God" or someone else with that power would restart Earth's evolution cycle, life as we know it today would be a lot different and probably a lot weirder to our point of view and our logic, so living beings from a planet millions and millions of years away from our own can be so different that it completely changes the way we see "existence" and "life" in the universe. I hate it when I see aliens being drawn with monkey-ish characteristics such as two arms, two legs and so on and so forth. For all we know they might need to have passionate butt seks to feed each other, they might not even have arms or legs or even a body, so to say that it's illogic the way they "contact" us is so wrong that it get's to the point where you would call it a fallacy.

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Of course it might be just jokes from adolescent aliens who got to ride their parent's UFOfor the first times with some friends...

I hope they get grounded for drinking too much "krafken" and for playing jokes on an unsuspecting primitive race!

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I actually do bleive that there is life on other planets because of the sheer size of it. Being the only inhabited planet in the universe is a statistical impossibility. Still, I recon all the others face the same problems we have concerning interstellar travels, not to mention the problem of actually finding another planet with sentient beings, thus I regard it as highly unlikely that we are being visited.

The chances of life on other planets is a very disscused matter. Calculated to be of the order of trillions and trillions and trillions, to less than 0.01 per cent over four billion years.

The chances of actually finding live on another planet is a different story. To give you an example: Lerts has a better chance of making love to Angelina Jolie then we, the human race, to find other life forms.